Well, well!  I go away on holiday for a couple of weeks and just what do I come back to?!  Still more on DieselGate and - Johann's back!  Welcome, it's good to know you're back home. 

 

Perhaps newer members don't realise that 9000000 was one of the pioneers of the Yeti in the UK and a very early and enthusiastic member here.  Whilst I don't necessarily agree with his new toy, as long as he's on Briskoda he must surely have at least Honorary membership of the Yeti forum, with full posting rights . 

Is honorary membership like freedom membership then or do you only pay for one?

12 minutes ago, Sad555 said:

Is honorary membership like freedom membership then or do you only pay for one?

 

There's certainly no need for that.

 

And apologies for causing such consternation. But as per my previous post, this sort of thing has been an issue in the Yeti forum for as long as I've been using it! Yetis are shy creatures that don't know how to look over parapets.

33 minutes ago, Sad555 said:

Is honorary membership like freedom membership then or do you only pay for one?

It's only 'bestowed' upon ex Staff members. 

2 hours ago, john999boy said:

It's only 'bestowed' upon ex Staff members. 

I'm sure you understand that I wasn't referring to the 'official' Briskoda title .

When I'm a longstanding poster I'll be entitled to an opinion in a yeti forum (which I thought it was tinder looking at certain avatars). The cars are not the same, second hand wasn't mentioned in the op but because someone is a 'pioneer' the fanbois form a square and the mods play along. 

Bring back the Yeti love 

Might be of interest for this topic

On 19/07/2017 at 17:53, 900000 said:

I go away for a few years and I come back and everything has changed. And nothing has changed. Long live the Yeti forum eh?!

Nothing changes Johann  just the same as ever, apart from I'm on yeti no4 now a 1,4tsi l&k.

 Welcome back enjoy your new wheels.

On 7/7/2017 at 22:33, 900000 said:

I haven't posted much recently (since I lived in Istanbul for 18 months and after that unexpectedly in Dubai for 9 more!). 

 

But I'm back and the Yeti was changed today. :( So no more Yeti. I needed a heavier car to tow a heavier caravan. And I was also sick of four cylinder engines. So got myself a VW Touareg 3,0 TDI R-Line.

 

Awesome car. But four things I'll miss from the Yeti. The minuscule turning circle (I had to do a three point turn in the Touareg at the end of my dead end street I live on, when the Yeti did it in one!). The Touareg also has hydraulic steering so there is no Park Assist. The Yeti is also much, much narrower and fits London streets better than the Touareg. The last is the Yeti's fuel consumption. Mine always drank like a fish (my average is 32 or so) but it gave me 49,0 mpg on its last trip today where the Touareg on the same trip back gave me 31,6 mpg! But I don't drive much and don't commute in it so the fuel consumption doesn't bother me much. 

 

 

Welcome back Johann, nice to see you again.